I Have to Understand the Brain

I remember just this convergence of life experiences and curiosity that just completely turned my path. I took psychology only because it was a class that fit in with my day job selling shoes at the mall. Phineas Gage, who famously made a mistake that ended up with an iron spike being blown up and through his frontal lobe out the right side of his brain. But remarkably, he walked away from this accident, but he walked away fundamentally changed and changed in interesting ways. You're a different person before and after you read a book. And sometimes you have an experience that's akin to a railway spike blowing through your head. It's just like pivotal, right? How does that work?